05/02/2018 The Papers

Coming up in a moment, The Papers.

Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

With me are Joe Watts,

political editor of the Independent

and Lucy Fisher, Senior political

correspondent at The Times.

Many of tomorrow's front

pages are already in.

The FT says the financial

problems facing Stagecoach -

the company that runs the East Coast

rail line - means the government may

have to renationalise the line.

The Guardian has that story

too, along with news

that the High Court has blocked

the extradition of Lauri Love,

accused of hacking several US

government bodies including Nasa

and the FBI.

The Metro says both

the Conservatives and Labour have

hit back at President Trump

he claimed the NHS is

broke and not working.

The Mirror's take on that same story

is summed up in its headline:

"You're Sick Mr President"

A century after women

won the right to vote,

campaigners are calling for jailed

suffragettes to be pardoned,

according to the Daily Telegraph.

The I reports that arch-Brexiteer

Jacob Rees-Mogg has

launched an inflammatory attack both

on the Chancellor and Theresa May.

And finally, The Express says

Britain is on a big freeze alert,

warning that Tuesday night will be

the coldest for six years.

So Brexit - probably

unsurprisingly - makes several

of the front pages tomorrow,

as does the East Coast rail

line franchise collapse.

That is where we are starting. On

the front of the Financial Times,

the Transport Secretary, Christopher

Grayling, lines up state takeover as

the East Coast franchise nears

collapse, is that the only option on

the table?

No, but this is the most

likely given the heavy losses that

this is -- that this is -- that

Stagecoach have incurred. I think

this will annoy many people and this

will play into the Labour narrative

that with private companies, profits

can be privatised but losses tend to

be gnashed Aliza and it will be

interesting how this plays out --

tend to be nationalised.

Especially

after Carillion.

Yes, you can see

Jeremy Corbyn leaping on this this

week, he has been pushing the

agenda, he will be talking about far

from virgin are being punished for

this franchise not working out, it

looks as though they will have their

franchise extended or not one of the

other lines around the UK --

extended on one of their other

lines. There is a feeling that

despite things that keep going

wrong, these companies come back for

more and tender win contracts and

take more money from the public

purse -- tend to win contracts. It

links into the issue of Carillion

outsourcing, and there's a big theme

growing up around this comment

Jeremy Corbyn is in the place to

take advantage. -- around this, and

Jeremy Corbyn.

Europe and Asia catch

Wall Street Journal, this is about

equity markets falling sharply, why

is that, Lucy?

The Dow Jones has

taken his biggest hits since 2008

and this comes off the back of

strong wage growth data which has

raised the prospect of Excel rated

interest rate rises which will have

an impact on borrowing --

accelerated. And so the question is

whether this will force the US

Federal Reserve and the European

Central Bank to cut their crisis in

Iraq stimulus. -- crisis era

stimulus.

It feels like a pivotal

moment, the cheap money is going and

that is what is freaking the market

is out.

Another one, I don't think

we have seen the end of this, but

now to Brexit. We did not start with

it, so maybe that was a novelty,

time to make a choice on trade,

Barnier tells Britain. This is

Michel Barnier who had a meeting

with both David Davis and a brief

meeting with Theresa May. Time to

make a choice, surely no surprise

but this is about the transition

period

and what we're going to have

afterwards, UK is trying to ditch

the old format of talks which took

place last year where David Davis

would go over to Brussels and then

they would have a week of talks and

then a press conference in which

Michel Barnier would say disparaging

things about the British approach to

Brexit, so they are trying to change

that, and instead they had Michel

Barnier over to Downing Street and

then a tiny press conference, but

Barnier still managed to say

something disparaging. Basically, he

is trying to tell the British

government that it is time to make a

decision about whether they want to

be inside or outside the single

market and the customs union and

Theresa May can't tell him to Mac

the EU what that decision is yet

because frankly her Cabinet is not

agreed on it -- can't tell him or

the EU what the decision is yet.

We

are getting the pressure from

Brussels to make up our mind on what

we are offering, there is also

pressure from within the Cabinet and

on her backbenchers, and also the

need for more clarity, but she

can't. The only thing keeping her

Cabinet together is the vagueness

that is allowing people on both

sides to still think they have got

something in the game and there is

everything to play for but I think

this'll be a very difficult and

period ahead.

And now Jacob Rees

Mogg is emerging as rebel in cheek,

but we knew that already. Could he'd

be a Prime Minister in waiting? --

could he be.

He is emerging as a

serious Prime Minister candidate,

people are starting to say that he

is one of the few people on the Tory

side around Brexit who is saying

what they think and it harks back to

the leadership contest regarding

Labour and Jeremy Corbyn, where it

did matter what he said, because he

said what he thought, and Jacob

agrees Mogg has got the same thing

regarding the Conservatives, so

maybe people should not think of him

as a jokey character. People are

starting to listen to him in terms

of him saying just what he thinks

and that is hitting home with the

Tory grassroots membership. He came

on top of a poll recently shown he

was more popular than Boris Johnson

amongst Tory members and so that was

a movement that is building.

He has

launched an attack on Theresa May

and Philip Hammond?

He's usually

very polite so it is more shocking

when he launches an attack, he says

it doesn't look as though the Prime

Minister is having much fun, but the

Prime Minister's spokesperson has

said that she enjoys her job

enormously, actually. He has also

launched a campaign against Philip

Hammond, the Chancellor, who has

been calling for a soft Brexit.

Either like to inject more

scepticism about Jake agrees Mogg's

leadership just as -- I would like

to inject more scepticism about Jake

agrees Mogg's -- Jacob Rees Mogg's

leadership prospects, he has never

held a Cabinet position, and some of

his conservative views would not be

that palatable to the wider public,

I would imagine, like his views on

abortion.

Yes, that is true. And on

the Tory side the MPs have got to

vote you into the final two to face

a vote of the membership and he

would first have to gain enough

support amongst the Conservative

Parliamentary party and it is by no

means clear he could do that.

Would

he like to be leader?

Yes.

Definitely.

And now to the

Telegraph, this is their spin on

Brexit, the EU could force steady

seven new laws on the UK. -- 37 foot

-- 37 new laws. Including having

four Vince for recycling.

This is a

interesting story. There has been

talk that financial transaction

taxes and things which could damage

the City of London and our economy

but the thing they focus on here is

the thing that affects everyone on

the streets that is how it goes to

the heart of what Brexit is about,

it is about the small infringements

are not the big issues. -- and not

the big issues for the EI permit is

whether we would have to accept --

the argument is whether we would

have to accept these laws in the

transition period. They are

determined to make us take these new

laws in the spirit, it is reported.

-- in the report.

This goes to the

heart of what the Grenfell campaign

was

-- this goes to the heart of what

the campaign was all about in terms

of Leave, so there will be an outcry

if this is pushed.

We have a good

picture here, regarding the

suffragettes, and the story is that

they should be pardoned, were many

women jailed when they were fighting

for the vote?

Tomorrow is the 100th

anniversary of some women, not all

women, getting the vote, and in that

suffragette campaign around 1000

women were arrested and many were

imprisoned. This is an interesting

campaign and I have written a book

about Emily Davidson, the only

suffragette to die, and many of them

wanted to get arrested because it

would help the publicity of their

cause. The first act of militancy

was in 1905 when one of the

Pankhursts spat at a policeman to

hopefully get imprisoned, and the

idea of whitewashing that and asking

for the record to be scrubbed is may

be misguided. It was a key part of

what they were trying to achieve to

get publicity.

That is interesting.

Have you written a book about this

as well?

I'm afraid not.

LAUGHTER

Last year we had the so-called

Turing law in which gay men who had

been prosecuted would be pardoned,

and so Eusebius as the government

doing this -- and so you can see

this as the government doing this to

mark a big event like a centenary,

but whether this is the right thing

to do, and Lucy makes a good case

that those convictions were badges

of honour and it allowed them to

campaign and get the vote.

And now

The Guardian. We have a picture of a

very elated Lauri Love, the British

student accused of hacking who has

won his appeal against his

extradition. I suppose the big

question, what happens to him now?

There is the possibility that the

CPS might appeal this decision, but

they have 14 days to decide whether

they do that or not. Even if they

don't, he will likely or possibly be

prosecuted in the UK for his crimes,

as well. This sets a precedent for

this to happen in the future, and

you might see the US tried to

extradite people who do these kind

of crimes in the future, but there

will always be this case now, the

case law, where lawyers can draw

upon this and say, this person

should be tried for their crimes in

the UK and not the US.

It raises

interesting questions about the US

prison service and the fact he was

going to be potentially put in

solitary confinement with a 99 year

sentence and I'm not clear if they

are the right safeguarding aspects

in the US prison service and so I'm

not surprised there are civil

liberty groups welcoming this

decision.

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Goodbye.